Thorny_Insight
@Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
- Comment on Does different parts of the world use different standards for water pressure similar to voltages? 1 day ago:
1 bar is enought to lift water 10 meters up. The pressure gauges reads zero at atmospheric pressure.
- Comment on Does different parts of the world use different standards for water pressure similar to voltages? 1 day ago:
And the location of the house/apartment. Houses higher up have lower water pressure and in apartment buildings the upper floors have lower pressure than bottom floors. 1bar of pressure lifts water 10 meters high. When constructing heating lines on a new building we might have the heating on on the first 3 floors despite the ends of the pipes leading to upper floors still being open and half of the building missing. The water wont spray out as long as we keep the pressure low enought that it doesn’t rise to where the pipes end.
- Comment on What are your plans for when the Milky Way galaxy collides with Andromeda? 2 days ago:
What is there to plan for? All the planets and stars in both galaxies are so far apart that any physical collision is highly unlikely.
- Comment on Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw 2 days ago:
There may be others reasons to interview Bill Gates about AI than the fact that he’s rich and famous.
- Comment on Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw 2 days ago:
If this isn’t the most cynical message forum then I don’t know what is.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
What’s minor in this case? The fact that it’s not specified makes me think we’re speaking of a 17 year old.
- Comment on VW will invest up to $5 billion in Rivian as part of new EV joint venture 5 days ago:
2020 seems to be the decade of awful tail lights but Rivian is definitely trying to set a new trend here. Those would be a total deal breaker for me if I was looking for an electric truck which is shame because otherwise it’s a nice vehicle.
- Comment on Photographers Push Back on Facebook's 'Made with AI' Labels Triggered by Adobe Metadata. Do you agree “‘AI was used in this image’ is completely different than ‘Made with AI’”? 1 week ago:
I don’t think that’s fair. AI wont turn a bad photograph into a good one. It’s a tool that quickly and automatically does something we’ve been doing by hand untill now. That’s kind of like saying a photoshopped picture isn’t “good” or “real”. They’re all photoshopped. Not a single serious photographer releases unedited photos except perhaps the ones shooting on film.
- Comment on Photographers Push Back on Facebook's 'Made with AI' Labels Triggered by Adobe Metadata. Do you agree “‘AI was used in this image’ is completely different than ‘Made with AI’”? 1 week ago:
But they did use AI…
- Comment on We all know it's true 1 week ago:
I’ve blocked several of the most active posters here and I don’t notice any difference on my feed. Neither would you.
- Comment on Never know til you go. 1 week ago:
Many new cars have a carwash mode. Not in any way exclusive to the cybertruck.
- Comment on Wasps 1 week ago:
Never had issues with them. I’ve even picked them up from the pool with bare hands and they still wont sting.
- Comment on Has Elon Musk made any sexist remarks? 1 week ago:
No it’s not.
It only prompts you with a warning that it can be considered a slur in some occasions but it’s not banned and wont prevent you from using it.
- Comment on EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control 1 week ago:
So I assume that since it was withdrawn, this doesn’t set a precedent and it’s only a matter of time untill they try to sneak it thru with a different name.
- Comment on Russian warships arrive in Cuba in show of force 2 weeks ago:
“Show of force”
We’ve been watching your show of force for few years now and it’s been unremarkable to say the least. A country without a navy has sunk your Black Sea fleet with modified jet skis. Just imagine what a country with navy could do.
- Comment on This LGBT book contains "very difficult" underage incest scenes but an Indiana school board allowed it to remain in a school library anyway 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I don’t know what a book with that level of graphic does in a high school library. The fact that it’s underage incest seems somewhat irrelevant though. It’s a book after all.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Fair enough. I don’t use Discord so I’m not sure but my understanding is that it’s free to use. So how do they fund it? I presume by collecting user data to target advertising or to be sold to 3rd parties.
- Comment on Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves 1 month ago:
No, the other user is claiming that they don’t have a “working” full self driving but is being vague about what they mean by “working”.
Full Self Driving is just the name of the software. There’s also autopilot but that’s different. The end goal of it is to eventually be capable of level 5 self driving so that’s why it’s named like that even though it has been a work in progress all of it’s existence. Wouldn’t make much sense to call is “partial self driving under supervision” because Full Self Driving is a better marketing term. Misleading? Well yeah perhaps but that’s what marketing teams do. Nothing new there. Not a single Tesla owner is under the illusion that you can just enable the system and take a nap. Doesn’t mean people don’t do that but they know that they shouldn’t. The system tells you that every single time you enable it.
Personally I don’t see a huge issue with that name. It’s level 2 meaning that it needs driver supervision and it’s by no means flawless but it does what the name implies: drives itself. It’s not just an advanced cruise control like for example the Mercedes Drive Pilot but it is actually capable of independently driving itself and especially with the V12 it’s actually getting quite good at it.
- Comment on UN revises Gaza death toll, almost 50% less women and children killed than previously reported 1 month ago:
The more civilians die the better PR it’s for Hamas. Not only is it a non-issue for them but it’s actually a good thing. Being martyred gets you straight into heaven or what ever their equivalance for it is. There’s a very good reason the combatants themselves are hiding in the tunnels while the civilians are placed as human shields on top of them. It’s the same reason for why they shoot rockets from next to schools, mosques, hospitals, refugee camps etc. and for why they started moving people back into their homes during the cease-fire. They know that the fear of killing civilians deters Israeli strikes. I know this is probably something that’s impossible to believe by someone that’s waist deep in the “pro-palestinian” propaganda but Israel is actually going into great lenghts to minimize civilian casualties. Nobody cares less about the lives of the palestinian population than Hamas.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Would be quite surprising if there was an ads-based platform that doesn’t do that. Age and gender are among the most relevant things when targeting ads.
- Comment on Slack has been scanning your messages to train its AI models 1 month ago:
We may very well be doomed if AI reaches consciousness but I’m not quite convinced LLM’s is the way to get there but even if it was and it was solely trained on social media content I still wouldn’t expect it to adopt the behaviour of your typical social media commentor. The toxic behaviour on social media is, in my view, almost solely driven by our human ego and pettiness. It’s not obvious to me that AI would care about things like winning arguments or coming up with snide remarks and such. What I see as the most likely outcome would be endlessly patient and quite autistic-like being that’s balanced in it’s views and would most likely be pretty difficult to argue against. I doubt humans are anywhere even near the far-end of the intelligence spectrum and something with the information processing capability that’s orders of magnitude greater than ours would more than likely not get caught up in stuff like confirmation bias, partisan thinking, motivated reasoning, being tossed around by emotions, cognitive bias etc. Those are by definitions human features.
- Comment on New Teslas might lose Steam 1 month ago:
Probably similar to why you can make the turn indicator make fart noises or have the car “dance” by flashing lights and opening doors and such. The hardware is there so why not. Utterly pointless features but atleast it’s something the competition isn’t doing I guess.
Tho I must admit that it was quite funny when I once heard a guy lock the doors on his Tesla and instead of the generick “click click” it said “quack” instead.
- Comment on Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves 1 month ago:
That’s not how FSD works. It’s a neural net trained on millions of hours of video content of good human driving. Nowhere in the code is even specified what a bicycle is.
- Comment on Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves 1 month ago:
Yeah I have no idea what you’re trying to tell me. You’re not going to buy a Tesla because they lied about FSD a decade earlier? Ok. Good for you?
- Comment on TikTok wants to be YouTube now, tests 60-minute video uploads 1 month ago:
Another thing about TikTok that I don’t get is all the useless crap laid over the video. Seems extremely distracting to me.
- Comment on DeviantArt’s Downfall Is Devastating, Depressing, and Dumb 1 month ago:
I’m a bit surprised about how quickly I got tired of seeing AI content (mostly porn and non-nudes) Somehow it all just looks the same. You’d think that being AI generated would give you infinite variety but apparently not.
- Comment on Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves 1 month ago:
I thought the consensus was that Tesla is far behind, hence why Mercedes is the first brand to actually have some basic level 3 automomus driving actually to customers
Yeah that seems to be the consensus but I have no idea what it’s based on. When the Mercedes system is put against FSD it looks like this. The level 3 driving is available only on a handful of highways between LA, SF and LV and even then only in ideal weather and traffic conditions.
If the competition really is ahead then where are all the videos of their vehicles doing what FSD does? There are countless accounts on YouTube demonstrating the capabilities of FSD driving both on highways and in cities but nothing about these other brands.
- Comment on Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves 1 month ago:
…and I don’t see anyone claiming it to be “working” as in it being safe enough to not need supervision.
- Comment on Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves 1 month ago:
The whole thread is about Musk claiming in 2019 that Tesla has FSD working NOW
From the article:
(1) representations that Tesla vehicles have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability and, (2) representations that a Tesla car would be able to drive itself cross-country in the coming year.
So not only are you clearly emotionally invested here but you’re also being dishonest about the claims that have been made. I don’t think there’s any reason to go further with this.
- Comment on Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves 1 month ago:
I don’t see anyone claiming they have “working full self driving”. That’s a strawman argument. Their system is really good and years ahead of competition but there’s still a shit ton to improve. That’s why it’s classified as level 2 and not level 3. It’s a vehicle capable of driving itself under supervision but it’s not a self driving vehicle.
I’ve seen videos with FSD creating numerous dangerous situations on a single trip
In the past few months? Because the current software version is completely different than what it used to be. They’ve moved entirely from human code to neural nets and it made a giant improvement in its performance.